by Jeff Podoshen | Sep 20, 2019 | News, Reviews
Solstafir, Iceland’s premier heavy rock band, played an extremely intimate and moving show this past September 12 at Pianos NYC in New York’s famed Lower East Side. The cozy venue right in the heart of NYC’s most historic and iconic immigrant...
by Metal Insider | Dec 13, 2016 | Best Of 2016, Lists
2016 flat-out ruled. Here’s ten of my favorites of the year, records I believe to be genre standouts, albums that set a new standard, or just unbelievably consistent pieces from start to finish. Let’s be honest, with so many great records (and some yet to...
by Metal Insider | Mar 4, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
There are bands that treat their music like a roller coaster ride – methodical ascensions, drastic descents, stomach churning twists and turns. For the last decade and through a bevvy of releases Germany’s caustic sextet known as Black Shape of Nexus have...
by Metal Insider | Feb 19, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
The continuing allegory being written by Portland’s Eight Bells is one of isolation. Isolation in a world that can be unforgiving and uncaring. While that theme may seem completely overbearing at times, Eight Bells will unfortunately have to come to terms with...
by Metal Insider | Dec 4, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
There must be something about the long, cold, unrelenting New England winters that has produced so many bands over the years who specialize in various forms of doom-laden sonic madness. The list of bands is too comprehensive to rattle them all off here, and frankly...